Gangwei Yongxing Fude Temple, Earth God temple in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan

Gangwei Yongxing Fude Temple is a small Earth God shrine in Gangwei Village, Xitun District, Taichung. Rebuilt in 1973 by Liao clan members and local residents, it was moved twice for road projects and now stands beside fields next to two old banyan trees.

Liao Chaokong built the shrine with large stones during the Yongzheng era while opening Yongxing settlement, calling it Shuitou Earth God. In 1913 it was registered under the name Fude Ye. Around 1925 the village head Liao Damei built a small temple on the site; in 1973 Liao clan members and locals funded a rebuild. It moved twice for road projects, first to Huanzhong Road, then in 2013 to a site beside fields with two old banyan trees.

The Liao family of Gangwei is Hakka, and each lunar October the temple distributes large gui-kueh rice cakes to celebrate the birth of sons. Today any household in the village with a new baby receives red turtle cakes and mian-gui from the temple, a gift meaning more sons and prosperity.

The shrine now stands beside fields on Zhongqing Road in Xitun's Gangwei Village, next to two banyan trees over a century old. It was moved there in August 2017, when residents and worshippers hauled the base by ropes, and reconsecrated on 16 January 2018. Look for the 2025 stele marking the land's return.

The temple's land was registered in 1913 under the name "Fude Ye" as plot 253 of the Guangshun section in Xitun District, a record that long predates the current building. In 2017, residents and worshippers moved the shrine's base to its new site by pulling ropes by hand, beside two banyan trees over a century old.